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Similar belts were much used in Pennsylvania at this time. Ivh 

 the Memorials of the Moravian church it is said that on the occasion, 

 of a treaty at Philadelphia in 1757, about 12,000 new wampum beads- 

 were brought there, '' upon which the Indian women were em- 

 ployed to make a belt of a fathom long and 16 beads wide, in the 

 center of which was to be the figure of a man, meaning the gover- 

 nor of Pennsylvania, and five figures to his right and five to his left, 

 meaning the 10 nations mentioned by Teedyuscimg." That chief 

 sent several belts to the Indians the next year. A large one had 

 five strings or lines across it of white wampum. A white belt had 

 black strings across and was otherwise set with black beads. An- 

 other of white wampum had black beads set across. These seem 

 the earliest of these transverse lines, unless the antiquity of the Penn 

 belt is allowed. This figure soon became common. At a council 

 in Easton (Pa.) in 1761, there were many belts with stripes^ bars- 

 and diamonds, and the width of each belt is given. Some stripes 

 and bars were sloping. At a council in Philadelphia in 1758, a 

 Seneca chief gave *' a Belt, on one side of which are three figures 

 of Men in Black Wampum, representing the Shawnees, Delawares,. 

 and Mingos, living on the Ohio. On the other Side Four figures 

 representing the United Councils of the Six Nations in their own 

 Country." At Easton, that year, Gov. Denny gave a large belt 

 with a man at each end, and a string of black showing the road 

 from Ohio to Philadelphia. In 1760 a belt of nine rows and two 

 feet long, showed a road passing through 12 towns. Diamonds 

 did not always represent villages or nations. In 1762 a belt of 

 seven rows had two diamonds to show the councilors and warriors 

 united in council. At Lancaster, that year, the Six Nations gave 

 " a Belt of nine Rows, representing the figures of two Men in the 

 middle, with a Heart between them, & Six Diamonds on each side; 

 one of the men represents the Indians, the other the English." — 

 Penn. Minutes, 8:747 



A few belts of this kind came from Canada. At a council in 

 1756, the Onondaga speaker described some French belts received 

 in his town, speaking in his proper place. " Then the said speaker 

 moved his seat and placed himself among the Oneida Chiefs and. 



